Bunce Island

Bunce Island held one of the busiest slave trading forts on this coast, sending tens of thousands of people to the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia, and the walls and cannon still stand in the wet green quiet of the river. Nothing here has been restored or explained on site with much detail, which is left as it is rather than staged for visitors. For African American and Gullah Geechee visitors specifically tracing that trade the crossing carries a particular kind of weight. A chartered boat from Freetown makes it a comfortable half day out.